The brain is the single most complex organ of which we are presently aware. However, the way which it assimilates informa¬tion and subsequently directs action seems more limited than our desires express. To effect greater ranges of action, the brain can join with its peers in social interaction but gesture and language are again apparently, frustratingly slow compared to the speed of thought. Fracturing some of these apparent rate-limitations and intrinsic barriers betwe¬en human and human, and human and ma¬chine now seem synonymous with ‘progress’ (although the purported ‘arrow of time’ ma¬kes this perspective almost inevitable). Ho¬wever, the dichotomy of the individual and the collective is not solved by the fractionization of the boundaries of what we call the human and what we call the machine. We are truly a species like no other. It may well be that the emergent entity of the integrated human-machine system will become the unit of evolution itself. This line of development promises a radical departure from how we have perceived ourselves up until now. It begs the question not can we do this but should we do this? Statistically and histori¬cally, the most probable outcome is that this union will destroy itself and pass into extinc¬tion before a new stable state of transient equilibrium can be achieved. As a general observation, it is doubtful that the Universe will notice.
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